YORK ST JOHN | ART
2020 Archive
BA Fine Art
STUDENT WORK
Alex Appleby
Alex Appleby’s practice interrogates the line, exploring the endless potential, and more currently a collection of gestural marks layered together.
Charlotte Taylor
Charlotte Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist based between York and Wakefield. Her recent sculpture series, titled Creatures, considers abstraction, texture and form.
Daisy Ashworth
Daisy Ashworth is an artist whose work reflects the nostalgia surrounding childhood memories using images are from her own youth.
Elinor Williams
Elinor Williams is an illustrator and animator. She is an artist living with chronic illness, and her work is driven by a fascination with human anatomy.
Heather Mottram
Heather Mottram explores textiles and natural materials and reinterprets the features of objects and structures already in existence.
Jack Shepherd / Vanya
Jack Shepherd / Vanya’s work uses fashion as its starting point. Shepherd is influenced by the weird and wonderful and work that pushes boundaries.
JR²
The work created by the duo JR² consists of found material/surfaces, focusing specifically on accessible material with a child-like approach.
Lucy-May Turner
Lucy-May Turner uses collage to counteract women’s predisposition of comparing themselves to the unrealistic body imagery.
Melissa Meachen
Melissa Meachen’s practice revolves around the traditional method of printmaking, whilst asking questions about superstition and folklore.
Olivia King
Olivia King’s work is inspired by vivid dreams and how they feed into everyday life, working across print, photography, painting and collage.
Sasha Bykova
Sasha Bykova is interested in the role of pleasure, creating three-dimensional paintings that evoke a sense of freedom through their tangibility.
Tilly Thornborrow
Through a material-led practice, Tilly Thornborrow explores family photo albums from the viewpoint of a younger generation.
Alice Denton
Alice Denton utilises line and colour to create abstract artworks inspired by an interest in architecture, machinery and most recently decay.
Chelsea Stephenson
Chelsea Stephenson focuses on re-creating the created. Her main interest surrounds landscapes and seascapes, with a focus on plastic waste.
Deborah Sisk
Deborah Sisk is a sculpture and collage artist whose work explores her own extraction of personality, as a woman sacrificed to undervalued roles.
Emilia Brassington-Jones
Using experiences of mental illness, Emilia Brassington-Jones creates visual representations of her mind through line and illusion.
Jasmine McKnight
Central to Jasmine McKnight’s work is the use of artificial colours to create other worldly atmospheres and disorientating experiences.
Jesse McMahon
Jesse McMahon is a multimedia artist. Drawing influence from avant-garde music and film, he creates experimental installations and video.
K Eliza
K Eliza’s abstract approaches unearth and release deep-rooted emotions as part of a cathartic process of the rebirth of the self.
Madeleine Hoyle
Madeleine Hoyle’s distorted bodies series is inspired by 19th century corset designs and contemporary gender studies, exploring body image.
Monica Marshall
Monica Marshall’s practice explores the subconscious and the psyche, making sense of the of life through colour, text and distortion.
Rachael Gallagher
Rachael Gallagher’s practice explores the sublimity of nature and an inability to recreate the awe one feels when viewing something such as the sea.
Tallula Scrimshaw
Tallula Scrimshaw is best known for her installation pieces; tactile sculptures made from scrim and plaster or clay hang and drape to create tension.